External Hard drive wont work

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razzle

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I formatted my computer last night I put on windows xp professional, It was formatted on NTFS. I plugged in my external hard drive and I can't access it now. Everytime I try to access my external hard drive it gives me the option to format it. I have alot of valueable data stored in it please let me know how can i access it.

Thankyou
 
see you probably a different format on that external harddrive that windows doest recognize do you know what the format is on that external drive?
 
dmaksimov said:
see you probably a different format on that external harddrive that windows doest recognize do you know what the format is on that external drive?
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I belive the external hard drive is NTFS also, but is there anyway I can confirm that.
thankyou
 
right click my computer select manage then go to disk management and if its pluged in you will see it there and it will tell you what you want to no.
 
External Drive Problem

This is a very common error seen with external hard drives. The circuitry in the drive could have failed. The actual hard drive itself could be in the process of failing.

Most important thing to do is stop using the drive now! At any time, the drive could crash on the platters holding the data and destroy the data.

You can contact ReWave Hard Drive Recovery (they are a data recovery company)- they do not charge an evaluation fee and their price is very affordable for external drive recovery.

Good luck!
 
im using a recovery program right now its going to take aproximatley 45 hours to scan the whole hard drive. until then i guess im a sitting duck :S
 
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